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Community : The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block (2008, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated

ISBN-101576754871

ISBN-139781576754870

eBay Product ID (ePID)63876268

Product Key Features

Book TitleCommunity : the Structure of Belonging

Number of Pages264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicOrganizational Behavior, General

GenreSocial Science, Business & Economics

AuthorPeter Block

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight20 oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2007-052814

Reviews"This book challenges the conventional wisdom about what you and I can do as citizens to shape our future. It offers concrete examples of what citizens can do and have done by drawing on resources in their families and communities." --David Mathews, President, Kettering Foundation "This book is the basis for health and happiness in any society. A must-read." --Quentin Young, Chairman, Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, and former President, American Public Health Association "'What we need is here.' That line from a Wendell Berry poem sums up the theme that runs through this vital and timely book. This book is a treasure. And it can help us recover the treasures hidden in plain sight within and among us, renewing ourselves and our democracy as we go." --Parker J. Palmer, founder of the Center for Courage and Renewal and author of A Hidden Wholeness , Let Your Life Speak , and The Courage to Teach "Don't wait for a politician, scientist, infomercial, or lottery ticket to come to the rescue. Read this powerful book and help yourself, your neighbors, and your planet to satisfying and sustainable solutions found only in community." --Jim Diers, former Director, Seattle Department of Neighborhoods, and author of Neighbor Power

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal307

SynopsisModern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our communities--businesses, schools, social service organizations, churches, government--do not work together. They exist in their own worlds. As do so many individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions lost. This disconnection and detachment makes it hard if not impossible to envision a common future and work towards it together. We know what healthy communities look like--there are many success stories out there, and they've been described in detail. What Block provides in this inspiring new book is an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation: How is community built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are involved? He explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen., We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block show that we have the capacity to find real and sustainable satisfaction right in our neighborhood and community. This book reports on voluntary, self-organizing structures that focus on gifts and value hospitality, the welcoming of strangers. It shows how to reweave our social fabric, especially in our neighborhoods. In this way we collectively have enough to create a future that works for all.

LC Classification NumberHM756.B56 2008